Global Health Systems

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:

  1. Apply frameworks to examine the structural components of global health systems.
  2. Analyse and critique the major international health status indicators and their data sources.
  3. Compare and contrast health systems challenges for different country contexts.
  4. Source, appraise and synthesise evidence driving health systems reforms in selected countries.
  5. Analyse population health situations and make recommendations for interventions to improve equity, quality, efficiency, and acceptability relevant to the context.
  6. Communicate and present evidence-based information about health systems.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• TAS-APM-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Management)
• TAS-APM-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Management)
• TAS-ADH-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-AOR-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-ADH-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-AQS-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-AQS-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-AMS-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AMS-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-SCL-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-SCL-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-AOR-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-AOP-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOP-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-HSI-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-HSI-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APD-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-APD-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADP-GCE-2027 - Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice
• TAS-CDP-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-CDP-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-CUC-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-CUC-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-CCR-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
• TAS-APG-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-APG-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-APH-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-APH-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AWP-GDI-2027 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-AWP-MAS-2027 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-MPH-GCE-2027 - Graduate Certificate in Public Health

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Independent Learning 7 hours weekly; Tutorial (Online) fortnightly

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.